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Security breaches have strong foot on healthcare industry this year. Nearly half of the organizations in healthcare were hit by security threats at least once this year and it is expected to increase in the forthcoming years.... Read More

Apple, one among the top electronic and IOS manufactures, thriving with jaw dropping technology, has initiated its plan and set its play with health care domain in its recent release of new iOS 8 operating system.... Read More

TLS (Transport Layer Security) and SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) are protocols that provide data encryption and authentication between applications and servers in scenarios where the data is being sent across an insecure network, such as checking an email.... Read More

Shellshock is a security bug in Bash (Bourne Again SHell) command-line interpreter, mostly known as shell. Linux expert Stéphane Chazelas revealed this bug on 24th September 2014, and it is more severe than Heartbleed bug...... Read More

A serious vulnerability was exposed by security researchers on April 7, 2014. A problem was discovered with the encryption technology used to securely transmit e-mail, social media posts, e-commerce transactions and other related .... Read More

In the simplest of terms, Interoperability is the ability of making disparate systems talk to each other. The basic purpose of enabling interoperability is information exchange. Defining interoperability from a healthcare standpoint, .... Read More

At the epicenter of the healthcare scene, providers play a vital role in delivery of healthcare. They are key stakeholders in the healthcare cycle and impact the almost everyone– patients, clinics, hospitals, laboratories, .... Read More

Interoperability between disparate components of the healthcare spectrum has largely been limited to big hospitals that had a dire necessity for systems that spoke to each other.However, a quantum shift is taking place in the health IT industry to develop interfaces .... Read More

EHRs are not easily usable and their workflows are complicated. Due to Meaningful Use and incentives, most organizations just want to set up and EHR and start using it. They are not keen ..... Read More

The federal agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently revealed the fact that more than $19 Billion has been reimbursed as incentives for the meaningful use program. According to the data from CMS, ..... Read More

The bipartisan leadership of three Senate and House committees introduced legislation on Thursday (February 6, 2014) to overhaul the way Medicare pays the physicians. Though it does not specify how the reimbursements would be paid, the newer legislation will change the way physicians will be paid.... Read More